well, if you need to pay in advance, even not fully, there are still problems. It will not less than current situation you described. So I simply blame Bandai...
awesome work! hat off!
Just wonder 2 issues, 1st where to order those hands replacement? HLJ? 2nd, the LED shown on the wings, is that a real LED bulb or you are using optic fiber? I saw many projects are using fiber optics, because it saves spaces.
Oh, forgot to mention, the early design of JSF also considered canard
but it only has one turbo engin... probably this one is the most likely one... that will make "some ones" feel better...
except the intake of engine... YF-30 is totally a J-20... I don't know why so many guys are say it looks like T-50...
T-50 at least has the tailplane...